Swine and Poultry production showed enormous progress in the last few years, mainly due to the increased knowledge in genetics and nutrition. In the area of feedstuffs evaluation and nutritional requirements the improvement also was big due to the seriousness of the professionals to make high quality research in Brazil and abroad. This paper shows methodologies that can improve feedstuffs utilization more efficiently with lower costs. Procedures are described for adequate execution of growth experiments with poultry and swine. Actually, […]

An experiment was carried out at Universidade Federal de Viçosa to determine the metabolizable energy values of different samples of feather meal and poultry by-product meal with different levels of inclusion and at different poultry ages. The ten treatments used to determine energy consisted of a reference diet and ten test diets, obtained with the replacement of reference diet by five levels (5, 10, 20, 30 and 40%) of feedstuffs. The metabolism trials (total fecal collection) were carried out in […]

A serie of experiments was carried out with the objective to determine the nutritive value of nine poultry by-product meal and six feather meal for chickens. Four different methodologies were used to determine the values of N corrected apparent (AMEn) and true corrected (TMEn) metabolizable energy, where the traditional method was used with chicks and cocks and the Sibbald method was used with roosters and cecectomized cocks. The estimated AMEn and TMEn values of viscera meal ranged from 3,051 to […]